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The Mia Quinn Collection: A Matter of Trust, A Deadly Business, Lethal Beauty
Lis Wiehl’s Mia Quinn Mystery series is now available an e-collection.
A Matter of Trust
When life is murder, who can you trust?
A Deadly Business
A prosecutor of violent criminals. A detective on a dangerous beat. When these two pros take on an off-the-books case, the line between professional and personal becomes perilously blurred.
Lethal Beauty
It should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out nothing about it is simple.
“A fast-paced detective series [that] will keep legal thriller readers and John Grisham fans totally engrossed.” —Library Journal review of A Deadly Business
A Matter of Trust
When life is murder, who can you trust?
A Deadly Business
A prosecutor of violent criminals. A detective on a dangerous beat. When these two pros take on an off-the-books case, the line between professional and personal becomes perilously blurred.
Lethal Beauty
It should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out nothing about it is simple.
“A fast-paced detective series [that] will keep legal thriller readers and John Grisham fans totally engrossed.” —Library Journal review of A Deadly Business
- GenresMystery
991 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2015
About the author
Lis Wiehl
27 books637 followersLis Wiehl is a New York Times bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction books, a journalist, an attorney, and a legal expert. She is the former legal analyst for Fox News, former co-host of WOR radio's “WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl,” and was an anchor for the Law & Crime network (a multi-media live trial network). Lis Wiehl hosted the podcast Pursuit of Justice with Lis Wiehl and until recently was an adjunct professor of Law at New York Law School. Lis is the author of eighteen books, including the first in The Hunting Series, Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter, out in paperback from Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins on June 25, 2019.
Lis Wiehl is one of the nation’s most highly regarded commentators and legal experts. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Wiehl practiced law in a private law firm in Seattle where she also wrote by-lined articles on legal issues for The New York Times. From there she went on to become a third generation federal prosecutor (her grandfather and her father — an FBI agent — were also federal prosecutors) in the US Attorney's Office in Seattle. She served as the Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel for Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during President Clinton’s impeachment. From 1995 to 2001, she was a tenured law professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, where she ran the Trial Advocacy Program, which won several national awards during her tenure.
During her time at the University of Washington, Wiehl also stepped deeper into journalism by working as a reporter and legal analyst for NPR's All Things Considered, MSNBC/NBC News, and locally at KIRO, the CBS network affiliate in Seattle. After MSNBC and National Public Radio, Wiehl moved to the Fox News Channel where she served as a legal analyst and reporter for over fifteen years. During her time at the Fox News Channel, she appeared on numerous shows including The O'Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and the Imus morning show. Wiehl also hosted the Legal Lis radio show and the Wiehl of Justice podcast.
In 2005, Wiehl released her first book, Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life. Two years later she released The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It which was awarded the 2008 award for Books for a Better Life in the motivational category. Since then, Wiehl has continued to write bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction.
Lis Wiehl continues to appear in the media as a legal expert and commentator for organizations including CNN, CBS, NBC, and NPR among others. She regularly lectures at colleges and universities, appears as a keynote speaker, and speaks at bookstores, conferences, and literary festivals.
Wiehl earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, her Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland, and a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Lis Wiehl currently lives near New York City.
For more information please visit www.liswiehlbooks.com.
Lis Wiehl is one of the nation’s most highly regarded commentators and legal experts. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Wiehl practiced law in a private law firm in Seattle where she also wrote by-lined articles on legal issues for The New York Times. From there she went on to become a third generation federal prosecutor (her grandfather and her father — an FBI agent — were also federal prosecutors) in the US Attorney's Office in Seattle. She served as the Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel for Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during President Clinton’s impeachment. From 1995 to 2001, she was a tenured law professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, where she ran the Trial Advocacy Program, which won several national awards during her tenure.
During her time at the University of Washington, Wiehl also stepped deeper into journalism by working as a reporter and legal analyst for NPR's All Things Considered, MSNBC/NBC News, and locally at KIRO, the CBS network affiliate in Seattle. After MSNBC and National Public Radio, Wiehl moved to the Fox News Channel where she served as a legal analyst and reporter for over fifteen years. During her time at the Fox News Channel, she appeared on numerous shows including The O'Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and the Imus morning show. Wiehl also hosted the Legal Lis radio show and the Wiehl of Justice podcast.
In 2005, Wiehl released her first book, Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life. Two years later she released The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It which was awarded the 2008 award for Books for a Better Life in the motivational category. Since then, Wiehl has continued to write bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction.
Lis Wiehl continues to appear in the media as a legal expert and commentator for organizations including CNN, CBS, NBC, and NPR among others. She regularly lectures at colleges and universities, appears as a keynote speaker, and speaks at bookstores, conferences, and literary festivals.
Wiehl earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, her Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland, and a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Lis Wiehl currently lives near New York City.
For more information please visit www.liswiehlbooks.com.
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September 8, 2026
It’s pretty sweet I can rate all three books 2/5 twice. How often does that happen? Let’s start with the good.
The narration flows better than the Triple Threat series. I’m guessing it’s because the pov switches are more spaced out? Not sure, but I enjoyed the flow of it more.
You can tell it’s all Wiehl that romance was only hinted at, but neither Gabe or Mia actually wind up with anyone. Thank God, because I didn’t want her to pick anyone.
And that’s it. Here’s all the numerous bad.
Between this and the Triple Threat series, the latter gets a 4/5 overall while this is a 2/5 as said above, which is saying a lot since this was co-written after that series.
There are so many unlikeable characters. Gabe sucks so hard. His mother is a prosecutor. In book 1, he knows his “friends” are committing a crime, but whines to Mia about how he can’t rat them out because they’re his friends. They all belong in juvie, and the only difference is that they didn’t have weapons.
The one shithead ringleader, Zach or however you spell it, he ate their food, but between the three that Gabe called friends, he’s the only one that gets arrested.
In Book 2, we find out Gabe sucks because his dad is a coward and a cheater, having committed fraud as a CPA, and should thus be in prison, considering his wife was a fucking prosecutor.
I have no fucking clue why Mia keeps mourning over him, even after finding out he’s cheating on her with a 22 year old that he bought a /30k/ engagement ring for, but it sucks so hard.
Not to mention she keeps repeating in her inner monologues/dialogue “when he got angry” or however it was phrased. Why. Why would you keep mourning over that? She needed to see counseling for that, but it never happens.
Book 3, Gabe takes steroids and even after being told it would stunt his height and shrink his balls among other things, he doesn’t care and has to grasp on his own that he needs to stop. Mia knows what blood doping is, but doesn’t recognize steroids or roid rage.
Tyler, I think was his name, gets away with selling steroids. Mia knows steroids are illegal, but she doesn’t turn Gabe in or anything. Neither does Charlie.
In Book 2, they go on about how Betty sounds like an old woman’s name, but what about Eli? It’s a dumb name that’s the equivalent of Jebediah.
And Eli just sucks. He gets in the way despite just being a prosecutor, and has this whole crush on Mia. Even before the reveal in Book 3 where he’s revealed to not have divorced his wife, he still tries to pursue Mia.
Charlie is the only decent character. Everyone else just sucks. In Book 2, it felt like with Brooke, they were going to go with the idea that she really did see a bad man, but it turns out to just to be a rookie cop or whatever, who is not really seen again.
In Book 3, they never address where Lydia is, other than her living life on her own somewhere. Frank also sucks and is pissy even after winning the election, but barely, and they only hint at the idea that he’s being threatened by the Chinese, even though this whole time, I thought he was going to be the bad guy, as predictable as it was.
Speaking of which, Book 1 was the only book where there was any kind of mystery, and even then, they showed Katrina too many times, that it was just “Oh, so she’s the villain”.
The only surprise was that there were 2 involved, but you can tell it’s Wiehl’s fault that there was never a sense of “how are they going to get away with this” for Books 2 and 3.
Book 1 was the only subtle crime, and after that, the crimes just got sloppier and more public and frequent.
It’s really weird because this was after Triple Threat, which was better at mysteries, but weirdly kept copy pasting the same inner monologues when it came to explaining the grand jury, which they used once for this series.
Ophelia was just unnecessary as an appearance. I’ve just finished Henry’s “Girl In The White Van” and she’s the one responsible for every character having blue eyes, but Wiehl seems to be responsible for every character having blonde eyes.
While listening to the audiobook, I’ve tried to picture how I would write it, and both Eli and Gabe are unnecessary characters.
The narration flows better than the Triple Threat series. I’m guessing it’s because the pov switches are more spaced out? Not sure, but I enjoyed the flow of it more.
You can tell it’s all Wiehl that romance was only hinted at, but neither Gabe or Mia actually wind up with anyone. Thank God, because I didn’t want her to pick anyone.
And that’s it. Here’s all the numerous bad.
Between this and the Triple Threat series, the latter gets a 4/5 overall while this is a 2/5 as said above, which is saying a lot since this was co-written after that series.
There are so many unlikeable characters. Gabe sucks so hard. His mother is a prosecutor. In book 1, he knows his “friends” are committing a crime, but whines to Mia about how he can’t rat them out because they’re his friends. They all belong in juvie, and the only difference is that they didn’t have weapons.
The one shithead ringleader, Zach or however you spell it, he ate their food, but between the three that Gabe called friends, he’s the only one that gets arrested.
In Book 2, we find out Gabe sucks because his dad is a coward and a cheater, having committed fraud as a CPA, and should thus be in prison, considering his wife was a fucking prosecutor.
I have no fucking clue why Mia keeps mourning over him, even after finding out he’s cheating on her with a 22 year old that he bought a /30k/ engagement ring for, but it sucks so hard.
Not to mention she keeps repeating in her inner monologues/dialogue “when he got angry” or however it was phrased. Why. Why would you keep mourning over that? She needed to see counseling for that, but it never happens.
Book 3, Gabe takes steroids and even after being told it would stunt his height and shrink his balls among other things, he doesn’t care and has to grasp on his own that he needs to stop. Mia knows what blood doping is, but doesn’t recognize steroids or roid rage.
Tyler, I think was his name, gets away with selling steroids. Mia knows steroids are illegal, but she doesn’t turn Gabe in or anything. Neither does Charlie.
In Book 2, they go on about how Betty sounds like an old woman’s name, but what about Eli? It’s a dumb name that’s the equivalent of Jebediah.
And Eli just sucks. He gets in the way despite just being a prosecutor, and has this whole crush on Mia. Even before the reveal in Book 3 where he’s revealed to not have divorced his wife, he still tries to pursue Mia.
Charlie is the only decent character. Everyone else just sucks. In Book 2, it felt like with Brooke, they were going to go with the idea that she really did see a bad man, but it turns out to just to be a rookie cop or whatever, who is not really seen again.
In Book 3, they never address where Lydia is, other than her living life on her own somewhere. Frank also sucks and is pissy even after winning the election, but barely, and they only hint at the idea that he’s being threatened by the Chinese, even though this whole time, I thought he was going to be the bad guy, as predictable as it was.
Speaking of which, Book 1 was the only book where there was any kind of mystery, and even then, they showed Katrina too many times, that it was just “Oh, so she’s the villain”.
The only surprise was that there were 2 involved, but you can tell it’s Wiehl’s fault that there was never a sense of “how are they going to get away with this” for Books 2 and 3.
Book 1 was the only subtle crime, and after that, the crimes just got sloppier and more public and frequent.
It’s really weird because this was after Triple Threat, which was better at mysteries, but weirdly kept copy pasting the same inner monologues when it came to explaining the grand jury, which they used once for this series.
Ophelia was just unnecessary as an appearance. I’ve just finished Henry’s “Girl In The White Van” and she’s the one responsible for every character having blue eyes, but Wiehl seems to be responsible for every character having blonde eyes.
While listening to the audiobook, I’ve tried to picture how I would write it, and both Eli and Gabe are unnecessary characters.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 22, 2021
When I first starting to read this book I felt I was going to give it 3 stars. Once I got into the story it kept you going. There were not much twists and turns but was an interesting read and felt it really deserved more than the 3 stars so I gave it a four.
February 23, 2021
Enjoyed them all. Excellent, clean but exciting. Realistic.
March 1, 2025
One and three were my favorites but 2 was needed to keep things moving along.
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